Experts
Peter Beinart
Editor-at-Large, The New Republic
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Might does not make right. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Re: Did WWII breed the overconfidence that lead to Vietnam?
In war time the public's acceptance of government power expands. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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We need to restore our stature among other nations. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Writing should be judged by its quality, not its venue. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Institutions of global governance need to be reformed. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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We need to manage globalization more equitably. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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The US is wholly unique culture that has grown out of an enlightened liberal tradition. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Identity
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Media failed us in the lead up to the Iraq War. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Re: Who has the power in Washington?
Ultimately, the people have the power. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Re: Is the American political system broken?
Not broken but not working as well as it should. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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A moment like 1969. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Peter Beinart Exposes the Republican Paradox
Freedom according to Peter Beinart. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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A not so formidable foe. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Belief
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Democracy is essentially a good thing for the world. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Re: How do we make America secure?
America's obligation to protect other countries and vice versa. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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The challenges of imposing intellectual order on human actions. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Identity
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An Immigrant's Perspective on America
An early move from Cape Town to Cambridge. Read More
January 13, 2008 | In Identity
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Re: What were the surprises that came out of your Socrates experience?
Although people don't feel that their lives have been directly changed by the Iraq war, they do feel that it changed their perception of the government, and of America's role in the world Read More
December 21, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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Re: In wartime, does trust in the executive strengthen or weaken democracy?
Excessive trust in executive power can be dangerous. Read More
December 21, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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Re: How do presidents learn from defeat without easily acknowledge it?
Presidents who take power in a time when Americans are feeling disillusioned, or in some way defeated must be naturally good at restoring American sense of self-confidence. Read More
December 21, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
Peter Beinart has been at The New Republic since 1999, where he is a journalist and editor-at-large. He is also a contributor to Time magazine and writes a monthly column for the Washington Post. Beinart graduated in 1993 from Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union. In 1995, he received his MA in international relations from Oxford University, which he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. Critical of the Bush administration's handling of the war and its aftermath, Beinart was nonetheless a vocal supporter of the war itself, defending that position on the PBS show Buying The War, with Bill Moyers. However, in Beinart's book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals-and Only Liberals-Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (2006), which he expanded from an essay as a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution, he renounced his position, claiming that if he'd known then what he knows now about the capitulation of the War on Terror, he wouldn't have supported it in the first place. Beinart is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
